Experts to showcase pioneering cancer treatments

Surgeons and patients will talk about pioneering medical technology being used to treat cancer, during a "showcase" at Keele University.

Medics are using the technology in north Staffordshire and further afield to help patients who have head and neck cancers.

The event will include a "powerful" session with patients who have benefitted from the techniques and technologies, as they share their stories and experiences, organisers said.

The showcase, which is open to the public, will be hosted by the University Hospital North Midlands Charity and held at Keele's School of Medicine on Wednesday.

Professor Ajith George, consultant head and neck surgeon and thyroid lead at Royal Stoke University Hospital, who is also honorary professor of surgery at Keele, will give guests a guided tour of the technology.

He said the event would showcase work that goes on behind the scenes to support innovation that benefits people in Staffordshire.

Organisers said surgeons travelled from all over the country to train at Keele School of Medicine and use the facilities, using medical and virtual reality technologies to hone their skills and practice procedures.

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